Taylor Swift Acknowledges Fan's Sign at Chiefs Game: 'I Was Sobbing'

Green Bay native Brooke Huben knew there was a chance Taylor Swift would be in town for the Packers game against Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

Huben didn't want to get her hopes too high, but she did some research. A lifelong Packers fan, Huben knew that Swift would probably sit on the visiting side of the stadium if she attended, so she bought a last-minute ticket near the middle of the end zone and took her chances.

She had made a two-sided sign. When she saw Swift in the box directly above her seat, she held up the sign and screamed trying to get her attention. Soon, people around her started yelling to try to get Swift's attention as well.

Finally, in the third quarter, Swift looked down and spotted the sign. She waved at Huben, who quickly flipped the sign over. The second side drew an even bigger reaction from Swift, who pointed it out to Brittany Mahomes and covered her mouth.

"It was insane," Huben told Newsweek in a phone interview Monday. "I was sobbing after that moment. I was just so excited."

Huben, a 21-year-old junior at St. Norbert College, is an aspiring singer-songwriter who performs around Green Bay. She grew up listening to Swift's music, and last summer, she drained her savings account down to $2 because she didn't have a presale code for the Eras Tour.

"And that was to see her from a far distance," Huben said. "The fact that she was just in my hometown and right above me was so surreal, and she actually not only saw the sign but took a second to wave and react."

Huben's sign was a labor of love. She spent roughly six hours writing "Taylor, can I give you a friendship bracelet?" on one side of the poster and "Heart Divided" on the other with photos of Swift on one side and a Packers logo with gymnast (and wife of Packers safety Jonathan Owens) Simone Biles.

She used the printer at her work to print the photos and traced the letters by putting her iPad under the paper. She hand-colored and painted the broken heart and the letters. Since laminating a giant poster would have been difficult, she covered it in packing tape for protection from the wintry Wisconsin weather.

"It was fun though," Huben said. "I would definitely do it again."

Huben didn't have her phone out as she held up her sign, but fortunately, everyone around her did. After Swift pointed out her sign, Huben passed her phone number around the section, and photos and videos of the interaction poured in. When she got home, she had plenty of material to send to friends and post on TikTok (the song she chose to put behind her TikTok video was "Enchanted").

For Huben, who lists her favorite Swift songs as "Long Live" and "A Place In This World," the biggest appeal of Swift's music is her vulnerability.

"When I write songs and have to sing them, it takes me right back to the reason and the place and the memory of why you wrote that song," Huben said. "And some of them aren't always memories you want to relive. I just value how selfless Taylor is to relive those every time she sings them for us."

As for the sign?

Huben said: "I'll definitely be keeping it forever."